Event Description

Like cooking, writingis the process of pulling together raw ingredients with inspiration to create afinished work of art. Food and rituals associated with it can bring powerfulemotions and can inspire strong writing. Jules will speak about how to use foodas a metaphor through readings and writing examples that will draw uponcultural images toward food, rituals and preparation, gender, politics, bodyimage, and hunger. You will gain ideas for your own writing using food asmetaphor, whether it is fiction, poetry, creativenonfiction or memoir and a bit of insight on your own appetites.

Jules Nyquist lives in Albuquerque and is thecreator of the Poetry Playhouse, a place for poetry, visiting poets, workshopsand play. She received her MFA from Bennington College, VT and her poetrycollection, Appetites, (Beatlick Press) was a finalist in the 2012 NewMexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her next book of poems is entitled Behind theVolcanoes.